Politics - international

Russia is continuing preparations for the visit of President Vladimir Putin to Paris on October 19 during which the talks with French President Francois Hollande will be held, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday.
“The talks in the Elysee Palace are scheduled,” TASS quoted Peskov as saying.
He added that Putin will also take part in the ...

A US drone attempted to enter the Iranian airspace, but left after a warning from the military, a source in the Iranian Defense Ministry told Sputnik on Monday.
Earlier in the day, local media reported that the Iranian air defense had detected a US unmanned aerial vehicle in the east of its airspace, allegedly coming from ...

Moscow is ready to cooperate with NATO on Afghanistan, but the ball is in the alliance's court, according to Russia's envoy to the military bloc.
Russia is ready to cooperate with NATO on Afghanistan, but will not try to persuade Brussels, Russia's permanent envoy to NATO Alexander Grushko said Thursday.
"We are ready to continue such cooperation. ...

ISIS had been trying to inspire 'lone wolf' attacks in America for months before the Orlando massacre, including publishing a kill list with the names of at least 600 Florida residents on it.
Accounts linked to the terror group published the list back in April on anonymous messaging app Telegram, which contained the names of thousands ...

Three Syrian men suspected of planning an ISIS terrorist attack in Duesseldorf have been arrested in Germany.
Prosecutors say a fourth suspect, who informed officials in Paris about the plot, was already in custody in France.
The federal prosecutor's office said the three men were arrested in three different German states on Thursday.
It said in a statement that the plan ...

The Taliban movement executed at least 16 civilians Tuesday and kidnapped 30 of others after after pulling them off buses in northern Afghanistan.
Up to 200 passengers were travelling in four buses towards Kabul on Tuesday morning when they were stopped by the Taliban gunmen, with some killed on the side of the road at point-blank ...

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Tuesday it was no secret that some EU states were skeptical about extending sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine crisis and it was unclear if the 28-nation bloc would decide to renew them.
"The sanctions are there to ensure a political solution. I don't know what the European Council ...

Iran said on Sunday its pilgrims would not attend the annual Muslim haj pilgrimage, blaming regional rival Saudi Arabia for "sabotage" and failing to guarantee the safety of pilgrims.
Saudi Arabia, which oversees the pilgrimage to Mecca by more than two million Muslims from around the world, accused Iran of effectively depriving its citizens from the ...

A military parade started on Monday in the Red Square in Moscow marking the 71st anniversary of Victory Day over Nazism in the Great Patriotic War.
Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated of the Victory Day over Nazism, adding that it has become a holy day for each Russian family.
The Russian President said that terrorism has become ...

Pope Francis urged the world in his Easter message on Sunday to use the "weapons of love" to combat the evil of "blind and brutal violence", following the attacks in Brussels.
After a week of sombre religious events commemorating Jesus' death, Francis said an Easter Sunday Mass under tight security for tens of thousands of people ...

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea”DPRK” announced that it has successfully tested a solid-fuel engine that boosted the power of its ballistic rockets.
The Korean Central News Agency “KCNA” reported Thursday that the test was supervised by Leader Kim Jong Un who said that “the successful test helped boost the power of ballistic rockets capable of ...

A 16-year-old Sydney schoolgirl facing terrorism financing charges was refused bail Thursday as an Australian court heard she was allegedly plotting to send AU$5,000 (US$3,760) to the Islamic State group.
The teenager, who cannot be named under Australian law due to her age, cried after a magistrate in a Sydney court said she was to be ...

The Belgian capital is no stranger to associations with terror, with tensions heightened following the devastating attacks in Paris in November that killed 130 people.
Explosions at Brussels' airport and at a downtown metro stop killed at least 26 people and wounded scores of others on Tuesday. Belgium's federal prosecutor confirmed that the explosions at the airport were a suicide attack.
The blasts came days ...

A Flydubai Boeing-737 crashed Saturday while landing in the southern Russian city of Rostov; all 61 passengers and crew on board reported killed.
“FlyDubai was flying from Dubai to Rostov with 61 people on board including 6 crew members; Russia today reported citing emergency agencies at Rostov.
Meanwhile, Russian Emergency Ministry indicated that the plane smashed into ...

President Barack Obama will move to declassify US military and intelligence records related to Argentina’s “Dirty War,” the White House said Thursday.
The move is aiming to bring closure to questions of US involvement in a notorious chapter in Argentina’s history, AP said.
The US president’s visit to Buenos Aires next week coincides with the ...

French police arrested four Islamist radicals on Wednesday on suspicion they were planning “an imminent attack in central Paris,” TF1 television said. Three men and one woman were arrested at dawn in Paris and the nearby northern suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis by anti-terrorism police, Reuters said, citing the report. Security forces had files on them for ...

About two out of three Czechs oppose taking in refugees from war zones, according to an opinion poll published on Monday, reflecting growing anti-migrant sentiment in a country that has taken a tough stance on migrants and refugees.
Central European nations have opposed quotas for sharing asylum-seekers among European Union members, and Czech President Milos Zeman ...

Moscow will not permit the import of Turkish products to the country via Iran, according to Russian Special Presidential Envoy on Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov.
Moscow has warned Tehran that while expanding their bilateral cooperation in the food sector, it would not permit the import of Turkish goods through Iran, Russian Special Presidential Envoy on Afghanistan Zamir ...

Chinese envoy to the UN in Geneva Wu Hailong said on Tuesday that China, as a friendly country to Syria, will do its best to make the Syrian-Syrian talks a success.
“I am very happy because negotiations have started, and we hope all sides enjoy flexibility and achieve progress as this is in the interest of ...

Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she expects most Syrian and Iraqi refugees to return home once the conflict in their home countries has ended. She urged other European countries to offer more help.
Speaking at a regional party meeting, Chancellor Angela Merkel sought to moderate the criticism which has grown over her open-door policy towards refugees ...

Sweden intends to expel up to 80,000 migrants who arrived in 2015 and whose application for asylum has been rejected, Interior Minister Anders Ygeman said on Wednesday.
"We are talking about 60,000 people but the number could climb to 80,000," the minister was quoted as saying by Swedish media, adding that the government had asked the ...

In an interview with local media, Italian Defense Minister ruled out her country taking unilateral action in Libya.
Italian Defense Minister Roberta Pinotti ruled out her country taking unilateral action in Libya, saying efforts to resolve the Libyan crisis must be coordinated internationally, in an interview with local media published Thursday.
"In the last month, we have ...

The government of Afghanistan is ready to immediately resume peace talks with the Taliban movement, Afghan Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani said during a visit to Beijing on Tuesday.
The issue could be decided only through a peaceful way, he said, adding that Pakistan will support the settlement. Rabbani stressed that the violence in Afghanistan should ...

About 100 people suspected of attacks on Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Tehran have been arrested, with some of them later being released, Iran's judiciary spokesman Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehi said, AP reports, citing Iranian TV.
Protesters attacked the Saudi embassy in the Iranian capital after the Gulf kingdom executed a prominent Shiite cleric on January ...

ISIS has threatened attacks on Spain in their latest propaganda video, declaring: "We will recover our land from the invaders."
A map was previously shared showing the areas Isis plans to have under control by 2020, including Spain and large parts of Asia and Africa.
The video shows an ancient map of the Iberian Peninsula turning ...